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What's a Wreck?

A Cake Wreck is any cake that is unintentionally sad, silly, creepy, inappropriate - you name it. A Wreck is not necessarily a poorly-made cake; it's simply one I find funny, for any of a number of reasons. Anyone who has ever smeared frosting on a baked good has made a Wreck at one time or another, so I'm not here to vilify decorators: Cake Wrecks is just about finding the funny in unexpected, sugar-filled places.

The "Shing" was my favorite Stephen King novel. Especially when the dear soilder, Art, brought histort to Organ for the Holly Communion -- it was Christmastime. Although there was some question about whether he'd be welcome, he was secure in his reiterment (and the wrongerment of everyone else.)

Really? No one checked the spelling of history for a *display* cake? Oy.

Also, can someone explain to me the cake decorating theory behind scribbling colored icing over decently piped edges (cake 5)? Yes, it adds color, but does nothing to make the cake look better. There are so many decorated this way at my local bakery; I'm baffled.

My heart shings a song of joy each time I visit your page.As long as I've been reading your site, you'd think that I'd stop being shocked that a wreck is a display cake like Art's. I am a little surprised that you didn't have Seuss wrecks today, but I'm also glad, because it might have crushed the Seuss high I am riding right now.

I don't know about that, Bea. That green one looks pretty nasty. The yellow might taste okay, if you like trans fat and sugar, but I'm pretty sure the green one would taste like green. As long as you're feeling adventurous, why not go for the black one?!Oh Sharyn, Meatloaf with buttercream. That got the mental picture of the Birthday Iffer out of my head, but I really don't want anyone to draw it, even if he were wearing striped stockings!

I can never decide what bothers me most about wrecks - the fact that (most of them) they are slightly disturbing, or the fact that many people, having seen them STILL PAY for them and display them for their friends/family to see and eat!

OT: HaikuJoy, a few years ago when I was a TA at Flat State U, the powers-that-should-know-better said that we should ease off on the red pens and use other colors that would be "less damaging to the self-esteem of students." Papers bled to death in green, purple, turquoise, sparkly-pink, orange, and colors Nature never created. Oddly enough, student self-esteem did not seem to vary with the shade of pen used to correct, chastise, or remonstrate with their carelessness and/or ignorance. (TIP: SpellCheck is not always your friend!)

As to today's cakes: Dude, I'm spelling impaired and I could do better. Yeesh!

Wait, was the "Fare Well" cake bought for the person that's being left behind? I guess that's kind of nice. "See you later, Shauna, we're leaving you so we can have fun with our organ, but before we go, here have some cake."

I'm having the hardest time getting over the DISPLAY cake being misspelled as Histort. Is that an advertisement for that particular bakery's incompetence? Maybe they didn't want to do any more writing on cakes.

Lol. Man that soldier cake was so pretty until you realized they can't spell soldier to save their lives. Other than that the cake was pretty. As for the first cake does it have a R I P on the border? Lol if so don't enter there they plan to kill you!